There is no way this man killed himself, that’s what we are all thinking. Let’s break it down for you.
In the days before his death he had been giving evidence against the company in a whistle-blower lawsuit.
Boeing said it was saddened to hear about Barnett’s passing…
From 2010 he worked as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant making the 787 Dreamliner.
In 2019, Mr. Barnett told the BBC that the workers had been deliberately fitting substandard parts to aircraft on the production line under pressure. He also said that he had uncovered serious problems with oxygen systems. Which would mean 1/4 masks would not work in an emergency.
He said soon after starting work in South Carolina he had become concerned that the push to get new aircraft built meant the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised.
This is something the company denied.
He also said employees failed to track components through the factory allowing defective components to go missing.
He said that in some cases substandard parts had even been removed from scrap bins and fit into planes being built to prevent delays on the production line.
Again, denied by Boeing.
However a 2017 review by the US regulator the FAA did uphold some of those concerns.
What do you think was his death self-inflicted?
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